Barnes: 1105 books
by Constance Bannan Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
My parents and my three older brothers lived in homes provided for the wardens and their families by the state of Michigan. All of the homes were located on the grounds of the institutions. Dad selected priority inmates with recommendations from the prison staff as cooks, gardeners, housekeepers and...
by Dave Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Do you enjoy positive stories of hope, love and empowerment. If so then ON SUNDAY is for you. This moving story celebrates the power of love and hope in a deeply personal way. Charlie our main character has just lost his wife of 35 years to lung cancer. While he struggles to find his footing, he reunites...
The Independent Bar
Insights into a Unique Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The business of running a barristers’ chambers has changed immensely over recent years. The traditional image of chambers has been, in many respects, confined to the past and they are now, in large part, run as modern, highly efficient, businesses often with an international reach. The role of the...
Tory Insurgents
The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Building on the work of his 1989 book, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays,...
Sing Your Way To Health
A Programme to Tackle Aphasia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Aphasia is a condition caused either by a stroke to the left side hemisphere of the brain, or by a violent trauma to the left side of the brain, it often leaves patients with weakness to the right hand side of their bodies, and can affect speech. This book enables people to use melodic intonation therapies...
by Ken Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Ken Barnes was widely regarded as one of the finest footballers of his generation never to have won an England cap. During a distinguished playing career with Manchester City, Ken appeared in the FA Cup finals of 1955 and 1956 and later captained the club before retiring in the early 60s. He spent...
Care in everyday life
An ethic of care in practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. But care has also been implicated in the oppression of disabled people and demoted in favour of choice in health and...
The Archangels
Book 2 of the CIA Area 51 Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
The combination of the shoot down of the U-2 over Russia in 1960, Russia’s moving into Cuba, and the war in Vietnam placed a heavy load on national security. Secretly flown out of Area 51, the CIA’s new Directorate of Science and Technology developed a stealthy spy plane that still today remains...
CIA Project OXCART
The CIA A-12 Blackbird spyplane at Area 51
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
Selecting a place called Area 51 in Nevada and beneath a shroud of secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency first flew the U-2, the Angel knowing at the time that the Russians would most likely shoot it down within 18 months. To replace the U-2, the CIA designed America’s first stealth plane, using...
Finding Pathways
Mixed-Method Research for Studying Causal Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Social scientists have identified a need to move beyond the analysis of correlation among variables to the study of causal mechanisms that link them. Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes propose that a solution lies in 'pathway analysis', the use of case studies to explore the causal links between related...
Dust-Up
Asbestos Litigation and the Failure of Commonsense Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the “politics of efficiency,” or reform...
by Arthur H Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
After surviving the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Barney Freeman, U.S. Navy, is sent to Japan in 1944 on a covert operation to observe the enemy. His mission was supposed to last two weeks, but the submarine scheduled to retrieve him never comes. He finds himself alone and stranded in enemy territory on...
by Albert Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Albert Barnes was a 19th century American theologian who wrote comprehensive commentaries on the Bible in the 1830s, including these notes on the Book of John from the New Testament.
Waterloo 1815
The British Army's Day of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A major reassessment of the battle from one of the world's leading authorities, to commemorate the 2015 bicentenaryThe Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important moments in military history. This book seeks to not only tell the story of this great battle, but also to challenge conventional thinking...